UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016

On Nov. 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was fatally shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the Dallas police headquarters basement two days after Kennedy was slain.

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Guards escort Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police station two days after his arrest in conjunction with the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 24, 1963. Moments later Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. Photo by Frank Johnston/UPI

Police tackle Jack Ruby, after the nightclub owner shot alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police station on November 24, 1963. The gun in the hand of the police officer (R) was used by Ruby to shoot Oswald. Photo by Frank Johnston/UPI

Today is Thursday, Nov. 24, the 329th day of 2016 with 37 to follow.

This is Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

The moon is waning. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Neptune and Uranus.

In 1917, nine officers with the Milwaukee Police Department were killed by a bomb, believed to have been made by Gallean anarchists. Prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001, this was the single most fatal event in U.S. law enforcement history.

In 1969, Apollo 12 returned to Earth with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. It was NASA's second moon-landing mission.

In 1971, a passenger who became known as "D.B. Cooper" hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight from Portland, Ore., parachuted south of Seattle with a $200,000 ransom collected from the airline -- and disappeared.

In 2013, Iran and six of the world's powers -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States -- reached an interim agreement, or "first-step deal," in which Iran said it would limit its nuclear activities in exchange for easing some of the economic sanctions it faced.

A thought for the day: "Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people." -- Warren Buffett